one, two, or three. the good news for president obama if he performs well in the next two debates he could end up becoming the debate champion of the year. and that poor performance will become a very vague, distant memory, however, the fact he is becoming comedy fodder is a problem. if you have a challenger coming in, does really well the first time, do they continue to come in and do well or does the standing politician come back and dukes up, go for it? if you re a republican and you look for the history, you like to think of 1980, in this case, where ronald reagan did very well against jimmy carter, carter had 52 hostages in iran, you know, long gasoline lines. yet people didn t quite imagine reagan in the white house. reagan turned that around in the
slot we can expect the late night wars to heat up one more time. jon: lots of good comedy fodder. jill dobson. thank you. jane: we ve got new developments in this debate over the controversial immigration law in arizona. three major cities in that state say they were like to challenge it, at least some lawmakers in those cities do. phoenix, the mayor is one of them. he will be with us next to explain why.